Releases

Rough Trade Records are excited to announce the release of Honey Hahs debut album ‘Dear
Someone, Happy Something’ on September 14th.
Honey Hahs are three sisters from Peckham in South London, aged 16, 13 and 11. Their songs convey
a disarmingly frank, refreshingly clear view of the world. The album demonstrates their wildly creative
approach to making music and includes influences as diverse as Michael Jackson and The Children Of
Sunshine.
Rowan plays guitar and piano, Robin plays bass and Sylvie plays drums, and they all sing and
harmonize.
Honey Hahs have been championed by, and played shows with Goat Girl, Fat White Family, Insecure
Men, Shame, Micachu and The Moonlandingz amongst others. ‘Dear Someone, Happy Something’ was
produced by Steve Mackey (Pulp).
Listen to “Stop Him” from the album, which is an anti-Donald Trump song. “This is a song we wrote about
having to spend time with people you find annoying and then when we heard about Donald Trump we
made it about him as he seemed scary and dangerous. That’s where stop him came from.
“It turned out to be a really dancy song for us though, and when we saw people dancing to the song at
one of our gigs we thought it would be great to have some dance in the video. It is a protest song though
so hope the message still comes across even though we are having the best time making the video.”
The album comes as a UK import CD with concertina lyric booklet and a single LP in a gatefold sleeve.
Album design by Jonny Lu Studio with images shot by Oliver Hadlee Pearch with hand written lyrics
throughout.
“Don’t get too hung up on how old the people who made this record are: these songs speak to a spirit
that is inside all of us – it’s just that it sometimes gets buried by age. It’s nice to be reminded of this timehonoured
truth: the Youth will save us!” Jarvis Cocker

I think they should perform with paper bags over their heads,” says Tim Siddall, father of the Honey Hahs
– the three-sister pop group from Peckham, south London, whose first album of original songs, sung in
harmony, comes this Sept. on Rough Trade, produced by Steve Mackey from Pulp. “I’d like them to
remain anonymous and simply carry on with their childhood.”
The girls are out in the garden. “We don’t want to get too massive,” says Sylvie, 11, bouncing on the
trampoline. “It would be quite annoying to have everyone screaming at you when you’re walking down
the street.”
“Yes,” says Robin, 13, reflectively.
“I wouldn’t mind,” says Rowan, 16. “I think I could deal with it.”
The Honey Hahs are far too busy to become prima donnas. All three girls attend state schools. Rowan
does ballet, singing, piano and African drumming. Robin runs long distance, plays rugby and football and
draws. Sylvie does ballet, drama, gymnastics, football and plays the steel pans. She’s also a model.
The Honey Hahs’ music belongs to no particular genre. You could call it naive – because they’re
untrained – or simply original. All three girls now play instruments on stage (Rowan the guitar, Robin the
bass and Sylvie the drums) and they all write songs with the kind of lyrics you’d expect from young girls
brought up in a highly creative, socially aware household.
The name of their band does raise eyebrows. “It’s because of Peaches,” says Robin. “She’d been
messing around on the drums, going ‘Honey Hah. Honey Hah. Honey hah hah hah’ and Mum’s friend
said, ‘That could be your band name!’ and we were like, ‘Why not?’”